The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp
by George Roy Hill

The World According to Garp
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Actor: Glenn Close, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Robin Williams
Director: George Roy Hill
Brand: WILLIAMS,ROBIN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of The World According to Garp

DVD Review: BREEZY "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT", BUT THEN IT GETS PREACHY
Summary: 3 Stars

For all its lovely odysseys, The World According to Garp is an oddly unaffecting movie. Interesting, yes. Original, occasionally. Amusing, often. But despite the fact that it sets itself up as a tragicomic social satire walking several different ropes at the same time, not much of it really stays with you after it's over.

One minute we have a character gaping doe-eyed at his children, speaking lovingly about the joys of fatherhood, and the next minute he's taking an iron pipe to an electrician's truck because the electrician was driving too fast through the neighborhood. Which is all fine, thanks in no small measure to the convincing wigs of John Lithgow as a transvestite.

Holes begin to appear when all this reverie is broken with grave issues like a cultic feminist group, members of which cut off their tongues in protest for a young girl's rape. Deep. Our protagonist Garp wishes to lead a happy life of apathetic normalcy (not altogether different from what the audience wants, really) but his mother has other plans. When the film gets preachy, we have little choice but to squirm and play along.

To be fair, the film is a very decent rental ride though, sporting a fairly blithe tone, a sprawling scope to appeal to different pallettes, and some fabulous performances all round (you can see why Williams shot to fame shortly after this film), both on-screen as well as off-screen (in the form of the best Beatles number ever).

A recommendation somewhere between mildly pleasing and terrific.
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Description of The World According to Garp

Garp is a writer besieged by the eccentric people and the world around him.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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